The Last Station

Beautiful movie! Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren are both fantastic as the long-married Tolstoy's, James McAvoy (who I love!) is perfectly awkward and star-struck, and Paul Giamatti is creepy despite his good intentions (in a good way). As James McAvoy is hired to work for his idol, Lev Tolstoy (the writer of War and Peace and Anna Karenina) he is thrust into the struggle between Mrs. Tolstoy and Paul Giamatti as Mr. Tolstoy's friend who wants him to give the rights to his novels to Russia (instead of his family). Due to his celebrity in Russia, the "Tolstoians", followed Tolstoy's ideas and theologies passionately, and according to Wikipedia they were largely based on Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. However, much like anything else, those followers had twisted his ideologies into a strict and rigid religion, which was the opposite of what he believed. This serves as a small side story about some Tolstoians truly being influenced by Tolstoy himself, and not his followers. I really enjoyed the movie overall, the love stories were really beautiful. There is a short love scene, but there is no violence or language. I'd say check it out if any of this sounds interesting to you. If not, pass. It's definitely not a super exciting movie, it's more of a thinker.